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Slips and Slippers 

By 

HARRY WILLIAM KING 


SOUTHWEST PRESS 
Publishers in and of the Southwest 
DALLAS, TEXAS 


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Copyright , 2939 
Harry William King 


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JUL -8 1939 






DEDICATED 


To Thee, 


"RED CARNATION' 















































CONTENTS 


Chapter Page 

I. Beauty of Thought.3 

II. Humor.17 

III. Intelligentsia.20 

IV. Man.22 

V. And Others.28 

VI. Philosophical.30 

VII. Political.37 

VIII. Quips and Quippers.40 

IX. Religious.47 

X. Woman.50 














































































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CHAPTER I 


BEAUTY OF THOUGHT 

The beauty of the song depends upon the listening heart. 

* * * 

The sightless eye senses the beauty that we never see. 

* * * 

The blindness of love views with invisible sight. 

* * * 

The sight of those blinded by love brightens the eyes of 
others. 

* * * 

Dreamland is peopled with the queerest folk, yet none are 
strangers there. 

* * * 

The eloquence of a heart found true, will steal your 
breath away. 

* * * 

The fetters of love lighten the step. ’Tis time goes 
dragging by. 

* * ❖ 

We crush the flowers and waste the hours that mean so 
much to us. 

* * * 

The musty smell of withered flowers reminds one of loves 
long gone. 

* * * 

In the garden of your heart you will find her puttering 
around. 

Jfr Sfr 

Thank God for an earthly angel for she comes from 
Paradise. 




SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


The golden moments of life are few and far between. 

* * * 

Her first “Good Night!” became his Life’s Bright Dawn¬ 
ing. 

* * * 


You can judge happiness by the tone, and not by the 
emotions suppressed. 


* * * 


Happiness is ours for a season, to return nevermore . 


^ 2 ^ 


CHAPTER II 


COMPARATIVE-DESCRIPTIVE 


The state of marriage is not necessarily that of acquies¬ 
cence. 

* * Hr 

Though we are here but a little while, we act as though 
it were forever. 

* * * 

The faltering step of age hastens slowly to the tomb. 

* * * 

Better to be alive at sixty than to have died at twenty- 
four. 

i’r * * 

Some who seek favors, refuse alms to the blind. 


There comes a time when all things are to be considered; 
and there is a time when we consider all things. 


There is more potency in well chosen words than in any 
aphrodesiac. 

* * * 

Democratize art as you will, it is still nobility. 

* * * 

A cannibal won’t eat baby food unless he is in a hurry. 

* Pc * 

Beauty lies not in stark nakedness; even truth must be 
veiled. 

* * * 

The fox was luckier than he knew, for the sweetest 
grapes make a bitter wine . 


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SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


The Boy Scout is forgotten knighthood in the bud. 

* * * 

Braggart Caesar was wrong; subjugated is the better 
word. 

* * * 

The brave blanch at the prick of a pin. 


If she is happy because of you, you’re nearer Heaven 
than you know. 

* * * 

The kicking of an unborn babe is a knocking at Heav¬ 
en’s door. 

* ❖ * 


The light of Heaven was in her eyes as she closed her 
lids to sleep. 

* * * 

Once in a while you see a man that all the world could 
love. 

* * * 

Romance fares the better when the stars are the candle 
lights. 

* * * 


The pot of gold lies within her heart, for there is rain¬ 
bow’s end. 


* * * 


The shade of night was in her hair, though her heart 
u>as stilled in sleep. 

* >s- * 


There comes to me those might-have-beens, 
And things that never were. 

Though we strived and thought our best,— 
’Twas not for me nor her. 


* * * 

Were all the world to pray 
With heart and lip or song, 


4 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


There would never be another day 
To prove the night so long. 

* * * 

If you humble yourself by actually kneeling, and kiss 
the hem of her garment , your cleansed soul will reach un¬ 
dreamed heights. 

* * * 

The budding leaves of spring 
Bring back the thought to me— 

Of all the years —that I have spent,— 

Those days can never be. 

* * * 

To thee, in the keeping of Time, 

I give her thy soul to rest; 

And though you were mine for the asking, 

To deny you —was both—for us best. 

* * * 

The bread of the Poor, however fresh, tastes mouldy. 

* i'c * 


Spending the bridal night just talking will pay the best 
dividends. 


* * * 


The carpenter makes a mighty poor brick-layer. 

* * * 

If you are in bad company, you don’t care until you y re 
caught. 

* * * 


The nectar of chastity is as sweet as Virtue’s wine. 
* * 


The chances are he is no company to his accompanist. 

* Hr * 


Children are whipped frequently,— seldom for correc¬ 
tion. 


❖ * * 


The branded child knows the cross of shame. 


5 th* 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Neighbors listen eagerly to the prattle of your child, if 
you are not around. 

* * x 

Instead of a closet, the dead prefer the tomb. 

* * * 

The person who works to buy clothes alone is ever 
ragged. 

* x * 

Quality is more easily discernible to men of the common 
stamp. 

x * * 

The first coo of the baby is the voice of an angel; after 
that, the mistake is discovered. 

* x x 

The sight of an honest man would make cowards of us 
all. 

* * si- 

Curiosity, once satisfied, remains curious ever still. 

* * * 


The city’s dead is the hurrying throng that pass the win¬ 
dows by. 

* sc- * 

Within the hollow of the crown, the dust of the dead 
has gathered. 

x x x 

The purple cloak of kings is Death’s Mantle Royale. 


The measured step of Death re-echoes throughout the 
years. 

xxx 

The living dead is greeted by Death reproachfully. 


The death’s head at the feast was not MacGregor! 

xxx 

Man’s delinquency taints the air as spewed gall. 


6 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


There is a type that sue for little; that , granted, demand 
more. 


* a- si- 


People resent your happiness to the point of destruction. 

* * 


The keystone in the arch of character is disposition. 

* ^ sc- 

Being anxious to get it done, doesn’t mean you will do 
it. 

Si- si- Si- 

If you start out to do or die , you alone will do your 
dying. 

^ ^ ^ 

If you were sincere, drinking makes you remember the 
more. 

*fr si- Si¬ 
lt’s the fear bruised heel that crushes Truth. 

St- SJ- as- 


The dogs of Fear snap at the heels of Want. 

Sf- Si- Si- 

The salt of a man’s good deeds is the presence of hidden 
fear. 

si- *i- si- 

The chain of circumstance fetters our step. 

sc- si- si- 

Withered flowers may rise afreshed as at Easter tide. 

si- si- ${- 

Economics: a single word to cover dire need. 

si- Si- Si- 

It’s not the socks that smell, it’s the feet in them. 

si- sf- si- 

Let them circle around you but not like flies. 

Sf- Si- sf- 

The foxes in their holes think not of other foxes. 


^7 ^ 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


We use our friends, that’s why they are. 

* * * 

When you trust a friend, you mortgage yourself. 

* * * 

The tick of the clock at the head of the stairs is Death’s 
quiet funeral toll. 

i’r * * 

Were there gentlemen , the need for them would not be 
felt. 

* * * 

They give as you can pay, yet ever take away. 

* * * 

They are good when it is good and quiet. 

* * * 

They tell your last lie for you at the grave. 

* * * 


The childless couple sleep in tveed covered graves. 
* «• * 

Wishing for death is a misguided groan for life. 

* * * 


When they ask the question , they have guessed the an¬ 
swer. 


* * * 


The guest is an itinerant of another station. 

*■ * * 

We stand accused by those more guilty. 

* * * 

Shaded hair casts a shadow. 

* * * 

Sensible hands make crazy quilts. 

* ❖ * 

The happiness of a friend depends on memories. 

* * * 

If thou hast searched the world for happiness and found 
it not, plumb thy heart to its arcane depths. 


8 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 

It’s the impassive face whose heart writhes in torture. 

* * * 

The only hurt the giver has is a mild head-ache. 

* * * 

However desirous they are of getting to Heaven, they 
take their own sweet time. 

* * * 

Heroism is the precipitate of fear. 

* * * 

The hitch-hiker isn’t worth much on the hoof. 

* * * 

Home and a garden is now wheels on a highway. 

The door bell is no more. They honk, and get away with 

it. 


Those who hope need help; they who despair refuse it. 

* * * 

Take heed for there is so much to husbandry. 

* * * 

A hypocrite needs a book on how to keep the friends he 
has made. 

* * * 

Indifference and Reserve are step-sisters, mothered by 
Ignorance. 

* * * 

Being ignorant shows the nature of his birth. 

* * * 

Better to be indulgent with your daughter than to in¬ 
dulge your son. 

* * * 

If they can’t get you any other way, they’ll try to sell 
you insurance. 

* * * 

They sometimes tell you to do the impossible just to see 
if it can be done. 


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SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Just because you have a sense of humor doesn’t mean it's 
all a joke. 

* * * 

The ineffectual labor of the moralist dates from the Le- 
murian Swamps. 

❖ * * 

The jobless man is the civic leper. 

* a- * 

Kings and Hosts are different grades though the felt hat 
crown has made them one. 


❖ *• * 

The inactive person labors mightily. 

a- * * 

The pointed finger is the threat of the lash , and seldom 
the sense of direction. 

a- * * 

The pack destroys the faltering leader and all else that 
lies in its path. 

* * ❖ 

Lie is alibi. 

x * * 

You may fend one lie successfully. 

55- * * 

Lies lodge in truthful ears. 

* * * 

The lie given is frequently by the liar said . 


Those who have never lived sing, "To Live Again” the 
lustiest. 

* * JS- 

Living but well leaves them pretty sick. 

* * 55 - 

Perfect love cannot stand the strain. Consider Abelard 
and Heloise. 


10 ^ 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Love’s tournament field has become a battle ground. 

* * * 

Love expressed in flowers, may die with the gift bouquet. 
* * * 

Whatever bad luck may be good for, we don’t want it. 

* * 55- 

Fail not to glance upon the bier, for there lies Majesty . 

* * * 


Making the five-and-ten keeps you out of the dollar- 
and-more. 


* * * 


Kings and common men alike bow to Manners, Royal. 

❖ * * 


Those that are a lot of fun may think marriage is funny 
too. 

* * * 

Experience discolors the lacquered mask and frightens 
youth away. 

* * * 

The doleful tone of the lover’s song has the hint of a 
mating call. 


The whistle past the grave yard soon becomes a mating 
call. 

* * * 


Being as mean as he is won’t even things up. You sim¬ 
ply goad to greater fury. 

* * * 

Life’s Miserere, to the one accursed, is a haunting mel¬ 
ody. 

* * * 

If you flatter them, you are talking to your mirror . 

* 5S- * 

The hope of yester-years returns to mock us still. 


11 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Few men without the price of coffee ever had more than 
that. 

* * * 5 - 

There is little cheese for man or mouse in many a work¬ 
man’s home. 

* * * 

Many endeavors hold little promise, the least of which 
is the music profession. 

* * * 


People who can say nice things never keep it up. 

* * * 

’Tis folly to woo impetuously,— and also very nice. 

* * * 

Your promise to be good is good for nothing. 

* * * 

New friends are made at the expense of old. 

* * * 


No pain can equal that of love gone forever. 
* * * 


The tears of the poor are those of pangs. 

* * * 


’Tis the pauper who enters the grave quietly. 

* * * 


The patent of nobility has a stain upon its shield. 

* * 


Throughout the world, every day, the patent of nobility 
is granted by the clerk and the servant. 

* * * 


It’s the patient who views his nurse impatiently. 
* * * 


Commercialized honesty is the best policy,— while it 
pays. 

* * * 

House to house peddling is not genteel beggary. 

* * * 

Were there peers , the phrase would not be mouthed. 


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SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Persecution feeds on excuses. 

* * * 

Your thoughts and your profession indelibly stamp 
themselves where all the world can see. 

* * * 

To the boys who didn’t make it, the Professor is a piano 
player. 

* * * 


Some get up in the middle of the night proving they 
own the place. 

* * * 

To the child, the adult is of questioned worth. 

* * * 

If you must hunt, be well prepared; they may not be 
rabbits. 

a- * * 


Radio announcers, ladies like men, frequently dramatize 
needlessly. 


a- * * 


The poor never dream of from rags to rags again. 
a- * * 

This old world doesn’t stop to reason, and won’t take 
time to read. 

* *s- * 

If they don’t care, there is little reason why they should. 

* * se¬ 
lf thou hast the strength to renounce , shed then thy 

tears of remorse. 

* * * 


The resignation of the poor is sickening. 

❖ * * 

He who seeks revenge lives a miserable life. 

sj. 

However right minority may be, the majority pays no 
heed. 


^<5 13 ^ 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Right, however right may be, depends on might for 
recognition. 

* * * 

It takes everything to make one thing right. 

* * * 

"Room for rent,” are but nests of the birds on flight. 

* * * 

However well done the work, you can’t feed your fam¬ 
ily from the purse of self-satisfaction. 

* * * 

When they speak of love, service never never enters the 
mind. 


When the sick are no longer ill, they can’t see where 
there was need of a doctor. 

* * * 

The drunkard’s yarn may be of someone’s silk. 

* 

The silver spoon in the baby’s mouth is a story told no 
more. 

* * * 

Slaves become freemen, while their masters remain ever 
bound. 

* * * 

The smile of a friend is never forgotten. 

* * * 

Sticking your chin out doesn y t make sense. Even the 
turtle draws in his head. 

* « * 

Fanatics brand their shame upon defenceless breasts. 

* * * 


With the chains about his feet, he carried another’s 
shame. 

* * * 


Simplicity is Virtue’s name, her home a citadel. 


14 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


The virtue of grieving not, becomes the cancer of the 
cankered soul . 


* a- * 


If you tempt them to steal, you are the greater thief. 

* * * 

There comes a time when no man should study more. 

* * ss- 

Little of man’s time is spent on the square . 

* * * 


They know you know nothing about them, which in¬ 
spires them to surprise you the more. 

* * 55- 

Having been there doesn’t mean others will follow. 

55- 55- 55- 


Costly thoughts bring but a penny in the open market. 

55- 55- 55- 

A mad man’s thoughts are tossed like angry waves. 

55- 55- * 


If you are not given a chance to explain, they have tired. 

55- 55- 55- 

Threadneedle Street ignores the threadbare man. 

55- 5J- .*5- 


They say you are an old fogy when you tire of pretense 
and pretending. 

55- 55- 55- 

A starving mouse looks with wondering eyes at thieves 
who rob a Church. 

55- 55- 55- 

Truth, like woman, has been taken too much for 
granted. 

55- 5{- 5{- 


Inverted truth becomes the corpse upon which buzzards 
feed. 

55- 55- * 


Where men are unafraid, they are heedless. 


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SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


When the unguarded hour strikes, pray to God that you 
are alone. 

* * * 

There is no virtue in being virtuous for Virtue's sake 
alone. 


As we reflect our vices, Virtue hides her face for us in 
shame. 

* * * 

If you expect or demand favors of those beneath your 
station, you are a bankrupt in principle and morals. 


The tumble weed of the desert is not the house to house 
peddler. 

* * * 

The lingering melody ends in a wistful sigh. 

* * * 

Your best work comes with freedom of action, and 
abandonment of the spirit, letting the mind soar where it 
will. 

* * * 

An honest f suitor sickens at his worthlessness. 

* * * 

As young as they may be, they are not so young as you 
may think they are. 

* * * 

If you use a hammer, you may strike yourself. 


*&§ 16 


CHAPTER III 


HUMOR 


From soup to nuts and now it’s the alphabet. 

* a- * 

The Colonel’s lady won’t admit it. 

a- * a- 

The shortest distance between two points is back to 
Mother again. 

* * * 

The thought of cabbages and kings troubles men no 
more; it’s potatoes and how to get them. 

* * * 

If they can’t, cawn’t, or cahn’t, give them another 
chance. 

* * si- 

While you’re chasing around, run fast, for someone is 
chasing you. 

* * si- 


Don’t let them fool you; the pomp of circumstance 
isn’t so bad. 


si- si- * 


Simon Lagree alarmed. Your clock does the same. 

si- sf- * 


Her stalking prowess discovered a coat trail. 

si- * * 


The epitome of Dante’s literary life started with sex and 
ended in the Inferno. 

si- si- * 

The dentist with little influence may have a lot of pull. 

si- sf. * 

Directions for burial never include an asbestos shroud. 


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SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


If you love her faults, you’re a hound for punishment. 
* * * 

You can’t fool them; they fool themselves. 

* * * 

The time to let go is %vhen it’s fun to hang on. 

* * * 

A genius is a fellow who gets his work done first, and 
then spends the rest of his time belittling your efforts. 

* * * 

Though the Greeks have a ivord for it, it will still be 
Greek. 

* * * 

When a woman starts fixing your tie, it’s the hang-man 
adjusting a noose . 

* * * 

Some hens cackle that don’t lay eggs. 

* * * 

By the time a husband is ff broke in,” he is usually broken 
down. 

* * * 

Men are weakies. They won’t howl about burnt toast 
in a restaurant. 

* * * 

There is nothing nice about pants, however much they 
shine. 

❖ * * 

You can always find sympathy—in the Dictionary. 

* * * 

The scratches of a hen leave no thoughts behind. 

* * * 

A daub of nail polish is Time’s timely stitch. 

* * * 


They won’t stay weaned. 

* * * 

They are beginning to wonder xvhy you have it. 


18 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


The tobacco worm doesn’t smoke, nor does the book 
worm read. 

* * * 

The most valuable etchings aren’t worth the worry . 

* * 

Exchanging Xmas gifts seems like pearls were cast be¬ 
fore. 


19 §•» 


CHAPTER IV 


INTELLIGENTSIA 


Much can be done with a book on the shelf besides dust¬ 
ing it. 

* * * 

Darting thoughts should create some light. 

* * * 

Though many refer to it, but one in ten thousand studies 
the Dictionary. 

* * * 

The fullest knowledge comes only to one who has hun¬ 
gered. 

* * * 


The erudite are a hazy lot. 

* * * 


The seed of idle thought plants itself in fallow ground. 

* * * 

High Schooled ignorance develops after school. 

* * * 


The weed of ignorance grows in every man’s garden. 

* * * 


The Intelligentsia has read one book too many, and yet 
one book not enough. 

* * * 

The liberal minded are short in purse. 

* a- * 


Our mental garb is patched with the thoughts of other 
men. 


* * * 


You may imprison a man, but his mind can wander at 
will. 


20 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 

Do not mention the foreign languages until you can 
lyre-ly speak your own. 

* * * 

The mental gnat knows all the authors and little of the 
stuff they wrote. 

* * * 

The stumbling block of thought is an as you will. 

* * * 

The teacher becomes an unwilling student. 

* 5 - * * 

Many give, but few produce thought, and less take heed. 

* * * 

Thought upon thought produces more thinking. 

* * * 

Having twisted thoughts doesn’t mean you have a sense 
of rythm. 

* * * 

The up-curve at school proves little in after life. 

* * * 

Shaded words are not born of shaded thoughts. 


21 


CHAPTER V 


MAN 


There are but two classes of men, and none but God 
knows how to classify them. 

^ * * 

Boys will be boys and the old boys tire. 

❖ * * 

Men with clean habits live longer. 

* * * 

Man is tied to the apron strings of habit. 

* * * 

Little men have big ideas about themselves, 

* * * 

A mean man drinks gall and likes it, 

* *■ * 

The man who gives thought of himself is cloaked with 
insidious desires. 

* * * 

A bad man’s good dream is no good to others, 

* * * 

When men get good, they are just about through, 

* * * 

There is something wrong with the stainless man, 

«• * sc- 

Heedless men are headless. 

S5- X * 

If you must play , play for keepers. 

* * * 

When men tire of bragging, they bray. 

55- sfr * 

When men speak rashly, they are fevered. 


^ 22 ^ 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Wild men with good jobs are soon caged. 

* * * 

Ruined men are not necessarily married. 

* * * 

Hounded men are of the mongrel breed. 

❖ a- * 

Men without shame wear the most clothes. 

* * ❖ 

The metallic tang about a man is seldom iron. 

* * * 

Every man is good for something, though he seldom 
finds it out. 

* * * 

Men produce good deeds only after agonized effort. 

* * * 

No one is so helpless as the man who is being helped. 

* a- * 

When men are down, they are out of the running. 

* a- * 

The punctual man is usually the fellow without a job. 

* * 

He slept his life away, dreaming not he had so little 
time. 

* a- * 

If a man could control his sex impulse, he wouldn’t. 


There isn’t much to a man who makes a lot over women. 

* a- * 

A man of many hearts acts heartlessly. 

* * si- 

Men, as botanists , are failures. Consider the soiled lilies. 

* * si- 

Men and mice are now content to nibble. 

Si- Si- * 

Wilful men become wistful fools. 


^23 ^ 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


If a man keeps a laundry bag, you may safely marry 
him. 

* * si- 

Men are too lazy to wipe dishes, yet a dog is not above 
licking his plate. 

Si- Sf- Sf. 


They are not all country bumpkins who wear their hats 
in the house. 


si- sf. * 


It’s the paunchy boys who toss the medicine ball. 

Si- Sf * 

If two are calling and they find it out, both will drift 
away. 

si- sf sf- 

If you linger awhile, you’ll stay too long. 

si- s{- * 

Fathers tell their sons nothing, and yet he knows it all. 

si- sf. Ji¬ 
lt’s rather serious when they start fooling. 


Don’t make a pal of your boy, he resents it. 

si- si- * 


You won't get to stay long if you stopped along the 
way. 

sr- >s- a- 

Hair oil is used principally by slickers. 

si- s{- * 


Within his heart was a funeral urn where a shrine might 
have been. 


si- sf. sf. 


A man of cryptic utterance is not in love. 

sf- sf. * 

She stopped, he looked , and is still listening. 

Sf. sf. sf. 

She can shake you out of your boots at the lightest 
touch. 


24 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Your magnetic personality depends on how lonely she is. 

«• * * 

You do not have to stroke her skin to make her purr. 

The link of her arm in his was the roweling spur in his 
side. 

* * * 

There are times when you can live without her, but it is 
hard to say when . 

* * * 

A woman thinks you are sensible if you are idiotic over 
her. 

* * * 

The loftiest can be taken down by a woman . 

* * * 

He called her “The Lovliest One,” yet he lied in his 
teeth. 


His ideal and that ideal of hers will strangers ever be. 

* * * 


If you pursue the widow, you’ll run short of breath. 

❖ * sf- 

If she is quiet, you will talk yourself out. 

* * * 

Highest heights known to man: Fool’s Hill at seventeen; 
Fool’s Paradise when he marries. 

* * * 

The ring upon her finger was the yoke around his neck. 
* * * 


While the bride is being 
turn tardily . 

* 

The drunken groom on a 
a sober thought . 


kissed, the groom’s senses re- 

* si- 

bridal night, will always have 

* * 


A man in love thinks of his and “his’n.” 


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SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


A new husband’s indifference toward women borders on 
insolence. 

* * * 

As lasting as the promise of a new father’s fear. 

* * * 

Men are brutal toward women unless they are of the 
poet’s mind. 

n * x 

The weight of marriage makes baggy knees. 

* * * 

The only future for a man is his wife, and she becomes 
his past and all of his prescience. 

x x x 

A wife makes a fool of the husband who is wise enough 
to listen. 

x x x 

As he gets steamed up, the wife’s esteem lessens. 

x x x 

A married man is a sputtering fuse stamped out. 


God help the man whose wife is disdainful. 

xxx 

Try to be what you are and you wife will see that 
you’re not. 

xxx 

No husband should allow his wife to stay up past mid¬ 
night. 

* * * 

The seed of marital delinquency is planted by the hus¬ 
band. 

* * * 


Your object and her object may prove objective, 
xxx 

If all men had jobs, the worries of some husbands would 
lessen. 




SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


When they start worrying you, get ready for other 
worries. 


* * * 


Far better to die than to marry an unloved woman. 

* * * 

The Big Bruiser’s little woman is glad he has weak knees. 

* * * 

You should know they hate you at home, if she is back 
on their hands again. 

* * * 

Because of you, she will look worse than her mother at 
fifty. 

* * * 

Acting the warden in a home forces many a wife to 
escape. 


««§ 27 


CHAPTER VI 


AND OTHERS 


It’s the careless incidents that lead to a care worn epi¬ 
sode. 


* * * 


The place of the courtezan and courtier is at court, yet 
they flitter amongst us at will. 

* * * 

The corespondent may not be a person of letters. 

* * * 

Much good goes into a dance hall, but none leaves it. 

* * * 

When you tell a dirty story, you are snitching on your¬ 
self. 

* * * 


The man with a dirty story respects himself not, and 
you less. 


* * * 


It’s no sign he thinks of horses when he gives a friendly 
slap. 

* * * 

With sagging shoulders and leadened feet, 

The girl of the street dragged by; 

While behind her, with curious gait, 

Stalked a man not fit to die. 


«■ * * 

The queen of tub thirteen is eagerly sought where all 
are king. 

* * * 

The kiss is a stepping stone on the Primrose Path. 


^ 28 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


A bad Jill has a Jack with a pint. 

* * * 


The difference between a dancing wife and the dancing 
girl is the Jumping Jack. 

* * * 


Beware of the three witches: 
tiousness. 


* * * 


Liberty, License, Licen- 


The flesh pots of Egypt are the night clubs now. 
* * * 


Long noses sniff more dirt. 

* * * 

Scum from the gutter leaves slime behind. 

* * * 


A perfumed man is a skunk on the trail. 

* * * 

A kiss on the sly is a sly request. 

:fr * * 

Under fifty, the o/ s/7A is electrifying. 


ZW wives seldom breed. 


**§ 29 


CHAPTER VII 


PHILOSOPHICAL 


People with cultural attainments are seldom from an¬ 
cestral halls. 

* * * 

Apartments are but catacombs for the living dead. 

* * * 

The one who gets around seldom gets there. 

* * * 

Autobiography is white-wash self-applied. 

* * * 

The awarded ribbon won’t purchase a slice of bread, for 
its value is known to but few. 

* * * 

Something bad doesn’t smell, it stinks. 

* * * 

Goods on the shelf are not bargains. 

* * * 

Only the very, very blind depend on the sense of touch. 

* * * 


Many business men have no business keeping a business. 
* «• * 

You have to drive the other fellow’s car as well as your 


’Tis ever the same with the careless. 

* * * 


Careless people have careless ways. 

* * * 


Experience is the hill and vale within the compass of 
one’s life. 


^ 30 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


There is no cross in the itchy palm. 

* * * 

We do well to let the dead die. 

* * * 

To the unafraid, Death is most kind. 

* * * 

Ships that never come in make derelicts on the Sea of 
Despair. 

* * Ji¬ 
lt is the desperate who are foolishly hasty. 

* * * 

Contrary to belief, man disposes. 

* * * 

The same dog that barks at the moon, will run from a 
cat. 

* * * 

Never forget that a bad dog with a good name is still a 
dog. 

* * ❖ 

Helping the blind is duty done; there’s wrong in being 
blindly led. 

* * * 

Dogs that bite, snarl first; humans never. 

* * * 

The hurt of doing without never lessens. 

* * * 

A hypocrite is the glass of fashion. 

* * * ! 

The driven snow drifts. 

* * * 

The rotted ground bears gallows fruit. 

* * * 

If it gripes, it’s gripping. 

* * * 

An empty hand is forever reaching. 


31 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


A tin horn may be a tin horn tooter. 

* * * 

Your foot print on the sands of Time may be but an 
epitaph. 

* * * 

The eye gladdened is not the glad eye. 

* * * 

Some are finished before they start. 

* * Ji¬ 
lt’s the /ZtfsZ? in the pan that sets the fire. 

* * * 


If you must gamble, gamble all and have done. 

* * * 

The good have to prove it. 

* * * 

The polish of a rolling stone has the glaze of a sophisti¬ 
cate. 

* * * 

Few attempt to grow old gracefully. 

* * * 

Haggling makes you cheaper than the goods. 

* * * 

For every “Hello!” there is a “Good-bye.” 

❖ * * 

The Satanic heritage of man is to be unloved. 


Do not look for a hole in the bucket if it holds water. 

* * * 

Few dare to be humble. 

* * * 

Thou doing likewise is just imitation. 

* * * 


Be curtly interesting. 

* * * 

A hot iron needs waxing. 


32 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


It’s the jack-ass who goes to see a man about a horse. 

* a- a- 

It’s the know-nots who scoff. 

* a- * 

No one yet ever stood on the ladder’s top rung. 

* * * 

The last laugh affords little merriment. 

* * * 

The Beggar of Life, and Life’s Beggar, make a pair. 

*s- * * 

The one who has nothing to lose is out for yours to 
gain. 

* a- * 

If you argue with yourself, you lose. 

* * sj- 


Even a louse is lousy. 

* * * 

The spark of love can kindle a consuming flame. 
a- * * 

Love reckons not the cost. 

* a- * 

Man should be made to listen. 

a- * * 

Life’s magnetic needle points toward the setting sun. 

* a- * 

Bought milk leaves the taste of many cows. 

a- a- * 

Tilted minds take a different slant. 

* * * 

A soldier of Fortune is Misfortune 9 s companion. 

* * * 

The better mouse trap is carried from door to door. 

* * 55- 

Long eared mules and people have this in common,— 
they can be driven. 


<*§ 33 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Nature ripens in the full of the moon. 

* * * 

Off with the old, on with the new, gets the neverlast- 
ingly same results. 

* * * 

As out of place as a toad in a gold fish bowl! 

* * * 

The philosophy of the beaten is to philosophize. 

* * * 

PIGS are like pigs,—they eat to live to eat again. 

* * * 

Pride’s bed is one of thorns. 

* * * 

The rainy day is close at hand when greying clouds 
appear. 

* * * 

The rainbow of hope is shaded with blue. 

* * * 


A letter of recommendation is a sad commentary. 
* * * 


An ill timed remark can destroy the labor of a life time. 
* 

Satisfaction comes with relaxing and not with relaxa¬ 
tion. 

* * * 

Sack-cloth is last year's dress. 

* * * 

The drying spring leaves blistering sands. 

❖ * 5 - * 

If you want to be seen , don’t turn your head to see who’s 
there. 

* * * 

The sunshine of a smile may dispel cloudy thoughts. 

* * * 


It’s an empty heart without a song. 


^ 34 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Not even a fool finds the songless worthy. 

* * * 

The solitaire tears away. 

* ❖ * 

Even those on stilts step down. 

* * * 

Just because the eagle swerves for his prey is no reason 

why men should stoop to conquer. 

* * a- 

The early bird’s worm is a sucker. 

* * * 

There is no difference between unlike peas. They taste 
the same. 

a- * * 

No two tear drops are the same size. 

* * * 

The flood of tears is Sorrow’s tide. 

* * * 

You have less time to get it done than ever before. 

* * * 

You will never get there being a tortoise. 

* * * 

Thinking won’t help. It’s the doing that does. 

* * * 

The common touch is lightly felt. 

a- * * 

The uneasy seat is the student’s chair. 

* * # 

The up-keep keeps up. 

* * * 

The timbre of the voice sounds the structure of the soul. 

* * * 

Wait if you must, but wait not long. 

* * * 

We are but dust on the silent walls of Time. 


««§ 35 £»» 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Wayward ways mean wasteful years. 

* * * 

It isn’t what you know; it’s who knows you. 

* * * 

The wheel ivithin the wheel could be a bee in the bonnet. 
* * * 

Magic words, like shifting sands, are wind blown. 

«• * «• 

Wisdom is the greatest burden. 

* * * 


Burning the candle at both ends is working and keep¬ 
ing house. 


* * Re¬ 


consider the wren; she scorns the nest where eggs were 
laid before. 

* * * 


At best, we are but worm food. 


3 


CHAPTER VIII 


POLITICAL 

The example of clean government was set when Christ 
cleared the temple. 

* * * 

Heaven has set no pattern for Democracy. 

* it * 

Autocracy is the saddle of Democracy when conflict 
threatens. 

* * * 

Democracy brooks no question of Caesar's due. 

* * * 

Democracy is the chess board of the lesser gods using 
nations for the pawn. 

* * * 

There is little Democracy in conscription. 

* it it 

Democracy’s foundation trembles when men become 
mad or mice-y. 

it it it 

The pillars of Democracy’s temple are the lamp posts for 
the political drunk . 

it it it 

When dictators have their way, mice have peculiar 
thoughts, for men no longer are. 

it it it 

All dictators are common men. Make of it what you 
will. 

it it it 

In the laboratory of politics, experimentation is both 
costly and dangerous. 


^ 37 ^ 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Freedom’s chalice has been filled with the hitter wine 

of regemented Democracy. 

* * * 

Few men with jobs ever strive for political office. 

* * * 

The heart of a king maker has the mind of a fox. 

* * * 

"At Law ” is an honorable profession, and yet most 
politicians are lawyers. 

a- * * 

All liars are not politicians. 

* 

There is no liberty where She is ever ready to drop heads 
with dropped stitches. 

* * si- 

Men, before and since Pilate’s day, have found their 
hands blood stained. 

s{- * si- 

There is little of neuter in neutrality. The dead of 
those it affects are of definite sex, and as definitely dead. 

*5- *i- ❖ 

They wouldn’t be representatives if they were denied 
the privilege of naming their price with none to bid them 
nay. 

* * * 


The mud bricks of slander are made with political 
straws. 


* * * 


The mighty are not to be trusted. 
bloody talons. 


sc- * * 


Even the eagle has 


The tax collector is Caesar’s own, and all you have 
theirs. 


s!- si- S 5 - 


is 


Bread lines, relief, public works, and taxes mean but one 
thing,— the wolves are eating sheep. 


««§ 38 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Three pea shells: relief, relieved, RELIEVED. 

* * * 

There is no reason to believe a woman can make a better 
jurist. 


««§ 39 £•> 


CHAPTER IX 


QUIPS AND QUIPPERS 


All is told when you saucer your coffee, yet little is said . 

* * ss- 

Apologies are offered with tongue in cheek. 

si- s{- * 

Obituaries are read with pleasure by those who have not 
the assassin’s courage. 

Competition employs the assassin’s stealthy approach. 

si- sc- si- 

Instinctiveness gloves the murderer’s hand. 

si- si- si- 

When King and Death pass by, Laugh , Beggar, Laugh! 
It’s your turn next. 

si- si- si- 

All birds will light sooner or later, but not in the same 
place. 

s:- si- * 

To the defendant, the jurors are frequently as many 
buzzards . 

si- si- sf- 

Though they tend flowers, they also raise cain. 

si- a- si- 

Honors and tricks in cards and in life, go hand in hand. 

si- s{. si- 


Strip poker is seldom played, 
too much time. 


s£ si- si- 


Shuffling the cards takes 


The art of finesse attains a high degree when employed 
by the habituate. 


40 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


You can be too clever. 

* * * 

The chamber maid of the tomb is the most active of all 
servants. 

* * * 

There is something wrong somewhere when the jilted 
lover commits suicide. 

a- * ss- 

Monthly bills is the screw in the rack. 

si- * * 

The industrial slave chain is made of many links, among 
which is the charge account. 

* Si- ❖ 

Grocery bills are hard to collect. None care to pay for 
the meat on their bones. 

si- si- sj- 


No one ever caught a crowing hen laying eggs. 

Si- S5- Ji¬ 
lt’s a shifty dealer who handles cats and dogs. 

si- si- Jf- 

The dealer who gives you a new deal, can still deal the 
bottom card. 

si- si- s{- 


The decorator thinks himself greater than the awarded 
one. 

s:- ss- si- 

Dynamic personalities are dynamite, and should be care¬ 
fully avoided. 

si- si- s{- 

The victor’s wreath about the brow is the circle of false 
pretense. 


More likely bright eyes mean fever. 

si- s{- si- 

Many a fine covered head has little in it. 


41 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


A big head may have water on the brain. 

x * * 

Talking to hear your head roar is no guarantee it will 
ring in other ears. 

x x * 

Dancing feet have jumpy hearts. 

x • x x 

Man’s heritage of Judas is abrogate , invalidate f and re¬ 
pudiate. 

x x x 

Judas did it with a kiss,—an example men continue to 
follow. 

x x- x 

Not all who kiss are favorites. 

x- 


The limpid hand clasp is the grip of a spineless mortal. 

* x- x 

Insurance is a tax on the living for the privilege to die. 

x x- * 

Limbs are displayed un-nature-ed-ly. 

x- X X- 

You cannot possibly love her afterwards , if you loved 
her not before. 

x x x 


Mighty gods of the yester-year now appear at the mas¬ 
querade. 


x x * 


A man will jump at the telephone’s call, and yet ignore 
the cry of his brother. 

x x x 


There are no milk maids along the milk man’s route. 

x x x 


The nightingale may become the croaking frog. 


42 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


The rift between couples is widened by friends’ none well 
wishing. 

* * * 

A stubby nose may be very long. 

* * * 

The wart on the end of our nose is most attractive to 
those who look not beyond. 

* * * 

A nation once cut paper dolls, —which afforded the gods 
a laugh. 


A person of details is a penny pincher. 


The difference between a male and a female secretary is 
oft’ times a polygamous fool. 

* * * 

The loan shark prey is the poor pay. 

* * * 

The fetidness of possessive airs blasts careers. 

> 5 - * * 


Suspects to the police department are prospects to the 
business man. 

* sf- * 

Pulling the forelock of years ago, is punching the clock 
today. 

* * * 

There are no contented people unless it’s the reliefers. 

* * 55- 

Broad minded saints are self canonized. 

* * * 

However lucky he may be, she is luckier still. 

«• * * 

Those who flatter loudest, slander sneakingly. 

* * * 

There’s a difference between a country soprano and a 
trained soloist. 


*&§ 43 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 

The contemptuous laugh is from a hollow soul. 

* * * 

A human clothes horse has a niggardly soul. 

* * * 

The stock salesman seldom takes his commission in the 
stock he sells. 

* * 5S- 

If they have money, they cling to their young ideas. 

* * * 

If you do them first, they will be done with you. 

* * * 

If they think a little, they may; if they think a lot, they 
won’t. 

* * * 

If they say they don’t mind, ’tis then they mind the 
most. 

* * * 

If they think about mental equality, it affords them a 
quiet laugh. 

* * * 

They are being a little devilish when they say they are 
human. 

* * ❖ 

The difference between well kept nails and sharpened 
claws is paint. 

* * * 

They are not on the war path when smeared with paint. 

* * 

They call it mischief in her eyes, but it has another name. 

* * * 

They can be confectionary. 

* * * 

They don’t want to hear a word about it when they ask, 
"What do you know?” 

* * * 

They make it plain enough without mentioning a name. 
^ 44 ^ 


I 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


They may wish they hadn’t said it, but count on it, they 
will say it again. 

* * * 

They who have the common touch , touch with the finger 
tip. 

* 'C * 

When they pray you do, they hope you won’t. 

* * * 

When they feel it coming on, they throw out their chests. 

* 

When they say they are sorry, they care not over much . 

* * * 

We rust if they don’t feed us the oil. 

* * * 

They don’t want the truth; they want compliments. 

* * * 

There is a tincture of something in it, when they tell the 
unvarnished truth. 

* * * 

Some think so much of themselves, they use up all the 
time. 

* * * 

Whatever you do don’t shoot, but think, of narrow es¬ 
capes. 

* * * 

The third estaters are the great unwashed. 

* * * 

Cold looks heat a firey tongue. 

* * * 

Cruel mouths harbor acid tongues. 

* * * 

The short, quick tongue of the liar has the strike of the 
rattle snake. 

* a- * 

The slanderous tongue is coated with venom. 


^ 45 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Slanderous tongues are hissingly strange, yet known to 
all. 

* * * 

A sharp tongue cuts one’s own throat. 

* * * 

Tattler and Rattler sound much the same, and are deadly 
in tongue and fang. 

* * * 

Those who trip the light fantastic, frequently trip them¬ 
selves with their tongue. 

* * * 

Bitter thoughts use honeyed words. 

* * * 

A sourcrastic mouth drools vinegar. 

* * * 


Hope the wrinkles will be with you a long time, for they 
have come to stay. 

x x * 


Some animals eat their young; humans leave theirs on 
door-steps. 


* * * 


It’s the trickster that uses for his trade the whereofs and 
the where-ases. 


x * * 


Women make good husbands. 

* * * 

Woman refines cruelty. 


^ 46 ^ 


CHAPTER X 


RELIGIOUS 


Where there is a good choir, the sermon is entirely too 
. short. 

* * * 

Few stand by the Church, but many sleep by it. 

* * * 

Dosing them xuith hell , fire , and water makes them vomit 
when they catch sight of black, cloth. 

a- a- * 

Men cannot emulate God, and continual goodness never 
enters their mind. 

* si- 

Men who fear their fellow man, take no thought of God. 

* it * 

If they have a fortune, they will need their God more 
than ever. 

si- it * 


A Greater Light outshines the sun. 

Si- SJ. it 


To those who read slowly and think carefully, the 
Greater Light dawns. 

si- si- it 


None believed Jeremiah then , nor would they believe 
him now. 


si* * SJ- 


We must return to Mother’s knee before we can enter 
the house of our Fathers’. 

X- it * 

Some men just have sense enough to go to the One Fhy- 
sician when they are sick of themselves. 


47 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Paganism crucified Christ, not Jewry. 

# * * 


When we are upon our knees, we reach the heights sub¬ 
lime. 


* * * 


It is better to kneel at the altar than to go wondering by. 

* * * 

It won’t beggar you to thank your God for some little 
thing each day. 

* * * 


Many make a business of offering the Lord’s Prayer once 
a week for pay. 

* * * 


The part left out of a prayer is like the uncut leaves of 
a book. 


* * * 


Only the weak test the strength of prayer; the strong are 
afraid. 

* * * 


The strength of prayer overcomes the weakness to 
whimper. 


* * * 


The prayer of an honest man should be that all men pray. 

* * * 


There is no seductiveness to prayer. 

* * * 

We beg a lot and give little thanks. 

* * * 

The organ sounds the Heavenly tones, yet none think to 
say A-men. 

* * * 


Protest not in prayer. 

* * * 

Reincarnation is thought expressed. 


48 ^ 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Sacrifice, humility, and contrition, once a creed, are but 
meaningless words today. 

* * * 

The sermonized and the sermonate look coldly past the 
passing plate. 

* * a- 

Though we walk through the shadowed valley, but few 
assay the hill. 


««§ 49 


CHAPTER XI 


WOMAN 

When a man is preparing for Heaven, God sends an angel 
to show him the way. 

* * * 

To worship is not wrong, though she prefers to be 
adored. 

* * * 

Bidding her to your bidding gives her a chance to de¬ 
mand. 

* * * 

The well made breast that ne’er gave milk 
To still a baby’s cry, 

Is but a useless ornament 
That dulls the glancing eye. 

* * * 

Lucky is the bride that has an honest groom. 

* * * 

The cackle of the crone is no barn-yard fantasy. 

* * * 

The child’s cheeriness proves the wife once smiled. 

❖ * * 

The crown of glory was her crown of thorns studded by 
a baby y s cry. 

* * * 

Daughters exemplify loyalty. 

* * * 

The convict’s daughter goes it alone. 

* * * 

The smile of a dizzy blond sometimes dizzies. 


5 0 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Endearing young charms become dear enough. 

* * * 

The evening gown is an unfurled battle flag. 

* a- * 

The "Fairest of the Fair” becomes the farer of your fare. 

* ❖ * 

You have her fooled if she keeps smiling. 

* * * 

The hidden charm may be the perfume behind her ear. 

* * 55- 

Feed her ego and she will eat from your hand. 

55" 55. * 

She will cost you a fortune anyway you take it. 

55- * a - 

If she gets fat , it’s your fault. 

55- 55- 55- 

Her dewy freshness became the withering frost. 

55- 5J. sfr 

The star dust on her hair was a promise of the frost to 
come. 

55- a- a- 

Her graciousness creates your stature. 

55- 55- * 

Into her keeping was given a heart which she nastily 
placed on display. 

Si- 5fr * 

Her lecture hall is frequently where he hopes to sleep. 

si- * * 

She fingered the beads as she softly tread, 

While her lips were moved in prayer; 

Yet her thoughts were of the long ago 
And of him who sent her there. 

si- si- * 

Her heart was shrouded with the damnable lie of his lust. 

$i- * a- 

Nice mothers are plainly beautiful. 

51 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Look for the mother your children will see. 

* * * 

Mother knows best,—if she is still young enough. 

* sf- * 

No mother ever told a daughter everything. 

❖ * * 

A step-mother has a lot of ideas that don’t include chil¬ 
dren. 

st- * * 

A mother-in-law out mothers a mother any time. 

* * * 

Nature’s inevitability is best expressed in woman. 

* * * 

A social butterfly may become a moth. 

* * * 

The posey in her hair meant just what it meant, 

sf- st- * 

The sparkle in her eyes was btU a light o’er the moor. 


The star-light was in her eyes, but it was no longer May 
time, 

St- St- St- 

The jewel upon her finger is the star-light of a night. 

st- st- st- 

Interested stenographers are interestingly helpless, 

st- sj- * 

If you feed her syrup, you’ll find her sticky. 

st- st- st- 


She acts wisely bent, yet ignorantly turns. 

St- st- * 

Though beyond reproach, she is not above it. 

st- SJ- Sf- 

In her set smile was a set of teeth. 

st- sf- sf- 

If they help you they want to socialize. 


^ 52 ^ 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Beneath the rose, 

There is a thorn. 

Behind her eyes, 

The tears are bourne. 

* * * 

The trick in the lilt of her voice was more than a catch 

it * it 

in her throat. 

it it it 

There is but one way to select a wife,—let her elect . 

it it it 

The widow’s mite is not the might of a widow. 

it it it 

The willowy type is not the weeping widow. 

it it it 

On his knees, 

Without thought of shame, 

He offered his life,— 

She refused his name. 

it it it 

Pandora was a woman. 

it it it 

A woman is more intoxicating than any spirituous liquor. 

it it it 

There is but one beautiful woman in all the world. 

it it it 

The beauty of a pretty good woman is never stressed. 

it it it 

Fashion ideals as you may, it takes a woman to clothe 
them. 

it it it 

Woman’s carelessness is deliberately planned. 

it it it 

Taking a woman into your confidence will only excite 
her insatiable curiosity. 


53 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


Men face a mirror and hope. Women look backward 
and are sure. 

* * * 

Knock-kneed, bow-legged women should wear skirts a 
trifle longer. 

* * * 

Few make over a woman who is always making up. 

* * * 

Opening your heart to a woman is like inviting a camel 
into your tent. 

* * * 

Women admit man’s superiority unflatteringly. 

* * * 

All women, somewhere in their lives, were once Delilah, 
yet never a man was Samson. 

* * * 

Whatever her faults, Woman’s name is not Iscariot. 

* * * 

Women are very forgiving when there is nothing to for¬ 
give. 

* * * 

Women do not forgive as men so easily do. 


Whatever his value since time began, woman has paid 
but one price. 

* * * 

A woman, like an oil painting, should be viewed from a 
distance. 

* * * 

A woman secretly longs for a younger man, when she 
tells the old boy he is distinguished looking. 

* * * 

Women are sensible enough to quit affairs where there is 
no future. 


^ 54 ^ 


SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


From the scrub woman to the Grande Dame, they're 
handy with the brush. 

* * * 

A woman who spends all day in town shopping for a 
thimble, would divorce a husband in two minutes. 

* J5- * 


A woman despises a sissy, yet she will take him for lack 
of a better. 

* * * 


The siren in a woman is her sigh-wren-i-ty. 

* * * 

The life of the party becomes a twittering old woman . 

* * * 

The whistling woman may have an open mind. 

* * * 

When you have won your woman, she will be disap¬ 
pointed in her winnings. 

* * * 

Do not ask that friends be discarded. She could have 
said "Yes” to someone else. 

* * * 

Just because you mean it, doesn’t mean she cares; but 
she will if you don’t. 

* * 

Her features remind one of old wall paper. 


* * * 


THERE IS ETERNITY 

The restless shades of we who were 
Would amongst you rest awhile, 
To muse of life long since gone, 
And of sins that had beguiled. 


^55 ^ 



SLIPS AND SLIPPERS 


We, too, once had the breath of life, 

And sang the songs you know. 

Those lays of then were bitter sweet, 

And, in death, you’ll find them so. 

Our days were spent in useless bent, 

No care of God gave we—; 

Oh heedless one, take heed, this thought— 
There is Eternity . 

—Harry William King 


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